
Kinoly
The kinoly is a predatory form of the dead in Madagascar. Malagasy religion centres on keeping ancestors content, and the kinoly is what an ancestor can become when that duty fails. The famous famadihana ceremony, in which families take out their dead and wrap them in new cloth, is understood by some as protection against it. It is a rare example of an undead belief tied to a rite in which corpses are handled by their kin.1
- the famadihana, the periodic rewrapping of the dead in fresh shrouds, which some believe prevents it
Oyo maziba ya sango elobi
They look like people but have red eyes and long fingernails1
They are said to disembowel the living1
Classed as a kind of angatra, the offended dead who haunt their graves and send disease1
The burial cloth (lamba) is associated with hasina, a sacred life force1
Beliefs about the dead vary widely from one Malagasy community to another1
Maziba ya sango
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